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Numerous flaws led to the oil rig blowout, resulting in several deaths, injuries, and severe environmental damage. One of the biggest was the failure of the rig's blowout preventer. Preventing Spills in the Ocean One of the ways that oil rig spills can be prevented is for employers to enfo...
According tonpr.org, the fatality rate among oil and gas workers is nearly eight times higher than the total industry rate of 3.2 deaths for every 100,000 workers. Injuries on an oil rig may occur because of: Explosions Fire Falls Negligence Overworked or overtired workers Pipeline accidents Ha...
The allegations on the company’s operating subsidiary Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) include violations of workers’ rights, the use of severe violence and associated deaths, as well as dumping toxic waste in the Congo River. Although Feronia sold its shares in PHC to the Mau...
Thankfully, greater emphasis on safety and better knowledge of risks have made offshore disaster less common and less severe. Countries have improved their offshore regulations and created better equipment as a result of the disasters below, but these come as a result of hundreds of deaths. ...
But for the company that pioneered Nigeria’s oil industry in the 1950s, the Niger Delta remains as important — and problematic — as ever. While Shell has cut onshore oil production and sold some onshore assets, it continues to invest in others. In fact, onshore production has risen in...
US shale companies accused of collusion over oil price; Wave of class action lawsuits come after regulators claim the industry conspired to curb production Jamie Smyth and Myles McCormick – Financial Times The US shale oil industry faces a barrage of lawsuits alleging some of the largest companies...
If you don’t go into the feedbacks, then you can’t talk about runaway warming, and going to 4, 5 or 6 degrees C higher average global temperature, and hundreds of millions or billions of deaths. And if you don’t acknowledge that, then you will not treat this as the emergency it...
In Africa, where China is under particular heat for edging out Western investors, the commercial value of NOC invest- ments, according to Wood Mackenzie, an energy industry consulting firm, is just 8 per cent of the commercial value of the IOCs' investment in African oil and 3 per cent ...
This review analyses and summarises the previous investigations on the oxidation of linseed oil and the self-heating of cotton and other materials impregnated with the oil. It discusses the composition and chemical structure of linseed oil, including its